Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis ... The price of vegetables in #Pakistan has shot up four times ... Now, we receive 10 to 15 trucks only," Awan said ... ....
Russia has launched a week of war games involving forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defence co-operation between Moscow and Beijing as they face tensions with the US. The manoeuvres are also intended to demonstrate that Moscow has sufficient military might for drills even as its troops are fighting in Ukraine... AP/PA Images. / ... /.
The defence command for Kinmen says the drone entered restricted air space over Lion Islet, with Taiwan's government earlier vowing to take tough new measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions into its air defence identification zone ... .
China on Thursday said the United Nations rights office that published a report on serious alleged abuses in Xinjiang was the "thug and accomplice of the US and the West" ... .
Ethiopian and Eritrean government forces have launched an attack in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, targeting rebel forces. Getachew Reda, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesperson, said on Thursday that both nations’ forces had attacked rebels in Adayabo in the north of the region ... We are defending our positions,” he said ... .
Washington must dispel Nancy Pelosi’s ‘negative influence’ before seeking cooperation, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said ... “The US side should dispel the negative influence of Pelosi scuttling to Taiwan,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday ... Read more Xi asked Biden to prevent Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan – WaPo ... READ MORE ... .
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Kazakhstan’s PresidentKassym-Jomart Tokayev has proposed a snap presidential election this autumn and to reduce the presidency to one seven-year term from the current two five-year terms ... A presidential vote is due in Kazakhstan in 2024 and parliamentary elections in 2025 ... Nazarbayev ruled the country for 29 years after it gained independence ... .
Former PresidentDonald Trump's lawyers on Wednesday sought to downplay the federal government's discovery of highly classified records inside his Florida estate, telling a judge that presidential records by their very nature are sensitive ... 8 ... (credit. REUTERS/MARCO BELLO) ... FBI recovery ... .
First, there was the woman at the Wimbledon final who looked appeared to have had “700 drinks, bro.” This time, it was the smell of weed that set off US Open favourite Nick Kyrgios ...On the way to his bench during a changeover, Kyrgios sniped ... “Obviously, I’m not going to be complaining about food stuff ... .
CAIRO. An oil tanker ran aground Wednesday in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly blocking the global waterway before it was freed, the canal’s authority said. The Singaporean-flagged Affinity V vessel had become wedged in a single-lane stretch of the canal, the ’s head said in a statement issued by the body ...Start a Conversation. .
In the buildup to the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the United States urged Kyiv to keep the operation limited in both its objectives and its geography to avoid getting overextended and bogged down on multiple fronts, multiple US and western officials and Ukrainian sources tell CNN...Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen ... ....